[dominicjamesParticipant]

Mick thanks for sharing on your compost .

The seaweed is a great idea . My partner actually mentioned it before but I forgot about it .

I just built some composition bays with pallets a few weeks ago.

I’m filling them with horse manure and scraps etc

But I will definitely give the seaweed ago .

Great idea too with the water pipe for the polythene.

I was thinking of buying a tarp but I actually have 1000 guage polythene , I might try to do something similar with the water pipe to keep it dry .

Good idea with the drain pipe as well .

How is the sea weed for decomposing does it decomompose just as fast as the manure or is it a bit longer ?

Thanks again for the video

[dominicjamesParticipant]

Hi mick

I’ve actually decided to go with horse manure . There’s a seller in cork that has good quality compost . It’s herbicide free .

Gee up. I have decided to use this instead as if like to get everything as organic as possible.

Dominic

[dominicjamesParticipant]

Hi Christine

Yeah I’ve decided on a mix of bags and horse manure .

I found a good supplier of horse manure , organic based here in Ireland . Gee up . It’s 145 a tonne. A bit pricey but what can you do.

I built some compost bins a few weeks ago. We have a pony so we will use his manure for next season, we just started a bit late so I will have to buy some in to get started .

Oh we were very lucky with our oily tunnel. It was given to us for free. A friend had one at his dad’s house and had no use for it , so said we could have it.

It’s a nice size 15 X 26 feet . So I’m just in the process of getting it erected.

Hopefully I’ll have it up in the next few weeks. There isn’t much soil depth where I’ve put it so I’ll have to do raised beds .

I’ll remove the wood though next year .

The cost of all the news beds etc … Is something I don’t want to think about

But I’m justifying it by telling myself it’s for years to come and the yeild of veg and beauty of flowers etc will more than make up for it

You should look at YouTube to see how you can make a poly tunnel with cheap materials .

It’s quite easy and inexpensive . Eventually I’ll do another one like this .

If you look up bealtaine cottage the woman has made her own and she’s had it for I we 10 years !!

Dominic

[dominicjamesParticipant]

Thank verh much .

I really appreciate it.

Yeah it is expensive. The one thing I like about it is knowing it’s organic or not got a lot of topsoil through it.

Since I’m starting the beds , I’m leaning towards doing this as it’s a once of and the yeild will be for years to come

Thanks again for clearing that up for me.

Dominic

[dominicjamesParticipant]

Hi randa,

I’m based in the west of Ireland . Connemara.

I’ve been in touch with places for mushroom compost but the price of delivery for the distance it has to travel is quiet high and the amount would be too much for me at the moment.

Getting bulk bags of compost ranges from 80 to 140 euros .

So I worked out buying individual bags would work out around the same and any extra expense would be compensated by the knowledge that it doesn’t contain a lot of topsoil.

That is great to hear . Thanks so much. I’m so excited I can’t contain myself !!

I’m in the process of erecting a polytunnel also so there will be plenty of activity in the garden this year !

Thanks again

[dominicjamesParticipant]

Thanks very much for your reply.

It is early . I’m just in the process of laying the beds down so it won’t be until next month earliest until I consider planting.

I have been looking for prices on bulk compost.

But I’ve concluded that not having the guarantee of what’s actually in the mix that I am actually going to just bulk buy bags of compost. It will actually work out around the same price for me and I will know that’s it’s not basically just topsoil .

Theres a good array of various types available so I will make a mix .

Is it okay to use bag types of compost to fill a bed ?

I’m assuming so

Thanks again and good luck with your future endeavours in the garden

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